kevindeeboman / masters_project

Measuring Swedish labor demand using job ads.

Masters project - Spring 2021

Description

Current measures of labor demand have many issues. They tend to be expensive quarterly surveys that capture changes in labor demand with a considerable lag. Meanwhile, digital job ads are becoming more important for labor market research. The increasing use of online platforms for finding employees makes the platforms a more reliable representation of the labor market. By looking at the Swedish official job ads platform, Arbetsförmedlingen, we create an index that gauges labor demand in terms of how many jobs are advertised online. This index is in daily frequency and can act as a proxy for labor demand. To evaluate how well this index measures labor demand it is compared to official survey statistics on vacancies, published quarterly. In addition to the main analysis, the daily index is disaggregated by occupational group and region to display how it can be used for further studies of labor demand.

Video overview (In Swedish)

A project overview was presented at a workshop hosted by the Swedish Agency for Digital Government, video available here (YouTube).

Contact

Kevin Dee Boman - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/kevindeeboman/masters_project

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Jag har råkat hamna här lite av en slump, men tänkte ge lite korta tips out of the blue, hoppas det känns okej!

• Länka er presentation om detta projekt som jag såg på https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfWWPpTysjk&t=51m i erat projekts README fil. Det gav en bra intro till projektet!

• Skapa en requirements.txt eller liknande fil som klargör vilka python dependencies ni har använt er av.

• Skapa en länk till mybinder.org motsvarande följande exempellänk: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-demo/master?urlpath=lab/tree/demo

  De som klickar på den får en tempporär Jupyter server startad åt sig innehållande github repot som beskrivs i länken som dessutom också får requirements.txt dependencies och liknande installerade automatiskt.

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